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August 24, 2000
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The U.N. high commissioner for human rights is welcoming a move by a French soccer club in the city of Strasbourg to take legal action against fans who sprayed anti-Semitic slogans on a stadium after the team’s defeat. Mary Robinson’s comments came after the mayor of Strasbourg and a representative of France’s umbrella organization for secular Jews filed a complaint against the actions.

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